Judy Maltz

Group expresses its first public reservations about the recent proposal to set up a new egalitarian prayer section at the holy site, citing that they are a women's prayer group and would like to continue operating as such.

Judge upholds ruling that rejects police request to issue injunction preventing five women from returning to kotel, says use of prayer shawls and tefillin does not violate 'local custom' and is not provocation.

After an absence of some 25 years the U.S.-born Israeli singer Libi returns, with a new band, to play the Jacob's Ladder Festival, otherwise known as the Woodstock of Israeli English-speakers.

But without any funding from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the conservative congregation must raise the money itself for the $1 million project.

MilkSense uses electromagnetic signals to monitor baby's intake.

After losing in a lower court, the police will ask the Jerusalem District Court to rule that five women who were arrested for praying at the Western Wall were disturbing the peace.

Mixed-race Peruvian converts to begin arriving in Israel early this summer, after being allowed to do so by Interior Ministry.

PM invites Jewish Agency chairman to discuss plan, which would wrest exclusive control of prayer at wall from Orthodox, with senior aides.

More and more Orthodox women are publicly applauding - and showing up to support - their Reform sisters in the struggle to pray at the Western Wall.

Czech-born Prof. Tom Berman, 79, apparently fell from cliff while hiking alone; he was known for his poem 'The Leather Suitcase'.

Somehow, Independence Day has come to mean mangal - meat on the grill - with boutique butchers and supermarkets devouring the benefits.

Judge rules that the five women who were arrested for wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall did not spark clashes, but were incited by an ultra-Orthodox women.

Five women detained along with one Haredi man who set alight a Mormon pamphlet, day after Jewish Agency Chairman details plan to expand Kotel plaza to include place for non-Orthodox Jews; 'Sharansky needs to know that if this continues, there is no basis for compromise,' says Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv.

Jewish Agency chair's position, outlined in a letter acquired by Haaretz, is likely to agitate Muslim religious leaders in Jerusalem who challenge Jewish claims to the Western Wall and argue that it is part of the al-Aqsa compound.

Claude Lanzmann, 87, director of the landmark film 'Shoah,' discusses his new film, anti-Semitism in France and the only two subjects worth writing about.

Statement comes day after Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky proposed special section at Western Wall for non-Orthodox prayer, following months of controversy and arrests.

Jewish Agency chairman's plan to expand Western Wall plaza to accommodate non-Orthodox worshipers will require renovation of Robinson's Arch; Haaretz has learned that Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz was involved in drawing up Sharansky's proposal,

Documentary filmmakers struggle to pay the clearance fees demanded by the European organizations that hold the rights to World War II-era images for their movies, while the institutions say they need the money to preserve and store the precious historical material.

My grandfather's wartime diary sheds light on the fate of Jews from the small Polish town of Sokal - including Einat Drach's mother, who knew little about her story.

'The story is far more complicated than we’ve been led to believe'; argues a leading Israeli Holocaust scholar. It is time to step back and look at role of tens of thousands of Jews in famous uprising.

The rabbi assured the agency chairman, Natan Sharansky, that despite a recent warning by Jerusalem police, women would not be arrested for saying the mourner's prayer at the wall; women's group says remarks prove that it's the rabbi who 'calls the shots.'

New Finance Minister Yair Lapid likes to go over the heads of the traditional media - something that doesn't sit too well with reporters.

The Argentine-born documentarian Gabriela Bohm, who is making a career out of mining long-buried secrets from her birth community, hopes her film about the prostitution ring 100 years ago will inspire today's victims of sex trafficking to take a stand.

A museum based on Biblical history and archaeology may not sound like the best place for a kid, but this one takes an unexpectedly exciting and engaging approach.

Young Diaspora Jews are increasingly foregoing Jerusalem for the hipper city-by-the-sea, where there's plenty going on to welcome them.